🎟️ Tickets: £30 each (includes sessions, materials, refreshments, and a packed lunch). Note: spaces are limited, and demand for our summer schools is always high
👉 Read more and book your tickets here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...
Let's better prepare us all for the future of fraud.

Whether you're an industry professional, a teacher looking to inspire English language students, or simply fascinated by language and crime, this could be the summer school for you.
✅ Gentle pace for absolute beginners
✅ Interactive, hands-on
✅ Taught by world-leading experts

We'll talk about how easy it is to clone someone's voice, our telltale linguistic habits, and how good ordinary people are at distinguishing human language from AI. On the last day, you'll have the chance to turn detective with your own high-profile fraud case to crack.

With that in mind, the world-leading FACTOR team is running a 3-day summer school to take you through the cutting-edge worlds of forensic linguistics, forensic speech science, and the ever-growing challenges that we now all face - the (mis) use of AI.

🧠 Dr. Ranasinghe will explore the complexities of content moderation, presenting his vision for improving subjective natural language processing tasks. See you there!
🗓️ 1500-1550, Thu 06 Mar
📍 Bowland North SR10
🔗 wp.lancs.ac.uk/factor/2025/...

In this talk, Barrister and Forensic Speech Scientist Dr Christin Kirchhübel (Soundscape) will explore the latest conversations and cases shaping this fast-evolving field.

📅 1500-1600 Thu 06th Feb
📍 Welcome Centre LT1 (A34) or
🔗 Online via Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/73a8be...

🗓️ Thu 23 Jan 2025
⏰ 15:00–15:50
📍 Welcome Centre LT1 (A34), Lancaster University
🚫 This talk will not be streamed or recorded
🔗 wp.lancs.ac.uk/factor/2025/...

This talk explores how "creepypasta" and sites like r/nosleep reimagine reality with eerie, dreamlike qualities. Join us to discuss myths, simulacra, and the cybersecurity risks of online horror spaces.

📅 Thursday, 05th Dec 2024
🕒 1500–1550 PM
📍 Bowland North SR02, Lancaster University

Join us to learn more about cutting-edge approaches in social media event detection. Reserve your spot here: lancaster-uk.libcal.com/calendar/fac...

Most social media event detection tools rely heavily on statistics, often overlooking the meaning behind words. Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi’s talk explores the semantic gaps in current methods and how new strategies can uncover critical insights from social media data streams.

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